Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: David Thewlis | Jonathan Raggett | Jonathan Woodhouse | Michelle Yeoh | Susan Wooldridge
Jason says: “In addition to directing his own films, Luc Besson has spent the past decade or two writing and producing action movies tailored to their stars; Michelle Yeoh was arguably the biggest female action star in the world during
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Director: David Gelb
Jason says: “I can’t say I’m a particular fan of sushi; in fact, I’m quite the culinary coward. But you don’t have to like a particular food to admire fine craftsmanship and dedication, and those are things that Jiro Ono
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Starring: Carice van Houten | Clive Owen | Daniel Brühl | Ella Izán Corchero | Kerry Fox | Pilar López de Ayala
Jason says: “It’s hard too believe that INTRUDERS is just Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s third feature film; the past decade-plus has been pretty good for Spanish genre filmmakers whether working in their native tongue or English, and Fresnadillo’s 2001 film INTACTO
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Su-yeon Gu
Starring: Atsoro Watabe | Kento Nagayama | Sei Ashina | Shido Nakamura | Sota Matsuda | Tokio Emoto
Jason says: “Su-yeon Gu’s HARD ROMANTICKER is one of those movies that feels like it was cobbled together from a bunch of anecdotes that don’t necessarily add up to a story, but is able to more or less able to
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Kat Cliro
Starring: Andrea Savage | Fallon Goodson | Geoff Stults | Jason Biggs | Justin Kirk | Kate Bosworth | Krysten Ritter | Rachel Bilson | Seymour Cassel
Jason says: “Krysten Ritter tends to make everything she’s in better, and as a result she’s been a go-to girl for best friends and sidekicks in romantic comedies and the like. It’s steady work, but if an actress doesn’t take
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jonathan Lisecki
Starring: Charlie Barnett | Christian Coulson | Dulé Hill | Jenn Harris | Jonathan Lisecki | Matthew Wilkas
Bruce says: “In Provincetown I described GAYBY as a gay Judd Apatow film, thinking that was a terse description. I did not mean my comment to be pejorative in any way but it did prevent at least one friend from
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Carlos Carcas | Norberto López Amado
Bruce says: “Norman Foster is one of the greatest living architects. His Reichstag in Berlin, the British Museum, the London gherkin, the Bilbao subway, the Hearst building in New York and the HSBC headquarters in Hong Kong are all worldwide
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Julie Bertuccelli
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Christian Byers | Marton Csokas | Morgana Davies | Tom Russell
Chris says: “In rural Queensland, Australia, Peter, a father of four suffers a fatal heart attack while driving and hits the enormous tree next to his house. Soon, his wife Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and 8-year-old daughter Simone (Morgana Davies) sense
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: James Gunn
Starring: Ellen Page | Gregg Henry | Kevin Bacon | Liv Tyler | Michael Rooker | Rainn Wilson
Diane says: “I read conflicting reviews of SUPER. One called it ‘an unwieldy mix of juvenile jokery and attempted pathos that just doesn’t pay off’ (SF Chronicle); another ‘the second coming of the avant-garde in indie film’ and ‘occasionally brilliant’
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly
Starring: Aaron Poole | Jill Hennessy | Martha Plimpton | Peter Stormare | Stephen Eric McIntyre
Michael says: “Peter Stormare gives a remarkably restrained performance as a small-town cop trying desperately not to give in to a violent past while investigating a local murder that touches close to home. Echoes of FARGO abound, in this economically
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